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TWAS Rightly so. If you look at what the other codes do it’s all based from a club perspective not the governing body. The governing body set rules and then let the market work within the guidelines. Pulver went so far as to withdraw funding at times sighting those who get the funding do not...

Strew, Froggy has a point about the selective schools as Wamberai alluded to earlier. Also we are talking about the affect say 15 to 20 years out because today we are still living on what was done 15 to 30 years ago. It’s the quality of player we are not getting as well as the number, like the...

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Wamberal Just had a quick look at James Ruse web page as well as North Sydney Boys and Normanhurst Boys. Not much joy in selective schools anymore for Rugby.

Decent numbers this time last season rating for going tho the floor.

Wamberal Totally agree with your comments pertaining to connecting to Asia parents. I think I am getting old an cranky and far less forgiving of those who run Rugby. The private school / local district team issue. Sydney University's raiding players from western Sydney and making those clubs...

Wamberal You are of course right in the street scape of Eastwood has changed. I would also argue not much has been done in connecting to the new street scape. The ARC and its replacement the NRC were both rushed to suit the CEO's who both saw needing to be seen to be acting and doing...

In todays Telie not online but in the paper version there was an article about how the AFL were paying schools to put up their posts at the expenses of traditional school sports and its about 20 schools per year. The article said Epping Boys once a Rugby school now had AFL posts. No idea how...

Do you know how they determine the average. Is it total minutes watched divided by 80. Or do Fox have ratings boxes similar to how FTA channels are, The same question for FTA do you have to watch the entire show.

Genuine question as I don't know. How long on Fox and FTA do you have to watch before you are counted in the ratings?

Third Test Syd 210k Mel 55k Bri 138k Ade 18k Per 64k Tot 485k Fox 224k Tot 709k Second Test Syd 229k Mel 109k Bri 154k Ade 22k Per 42k Tot 556k Fox 318k Tot 874K We must have a lot of watch if winning people. Only Perth increased.

TOCC Agree with your comments and one of the best ratings in the last 10 years. Maybe its me, I have never followed things like rating etc until a couple of years ago. Also I have a little more time today. I have been looking at the wookie pages across the codes and its not a great sight...

Tocc Its been a long time since we had a game with so much pre test media. Further so much banter between the overseas coach i.e. Jones played the media game very well. It was England and yes I know we are talking Rugby. But it was England they went up by one. The first test was generally...

FTA 556 Fox 318 Total 874 The FTA breakdown broken down to cities Syd 229k Mel 109k Bri 154k Ade 22k Per 42k Given the build up heaps pf press, the lack of competition from the NRL and AFL on the night, the Syd & Bri figures are disappointing, the southern states are good. Fox is good as...

Gotta say thats a tad disappointing ...

As we get towards of the season, will be interesting to see how the NRC is marketed. These rating are so important going forward.

No quite the opposite. Soccer has more players today then RU, RL, RU combined. They have a huge park based local team competition broken up into local district associations that run the local competitions. Soccer was never that big in NSW state schools and in private schools almost none...

Ouick We are of a similar mind but I should in the spirit of fairness declare I am nowhere near as hard core rusted on rugby person as most on this site. Moreover while I am a rugby first person, I sorta started to loose not so much interest but faith is not to strong a word in the late 90's...

Strewth You are asking the wrong question and because of that reached the wrong conclusion. If soccer does become the main sport in private does not mean rugby will disappear. Nor will the investment in coaching etc, it may come down a little but it will never disappear. Why is soccer...

Quick Hands Thanks for the post. On juniors I must agree with you comments pertaining to junior competition spreads. Although I am rugby first, two of my sons turned to the dark side and played soccer. Only one son played rugby, errr 2 actually bi=ut the other for only one year. The...